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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RanulfC" data-source="post: 97078" data-attributes="member: 2731">Ya, I seem to have run into a wall on this one. Everything I can actually access seems to only deal with the Langly-Lenticular design. (And the GT folks are very correct, they DID study the heck out of that one <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) Though I DID note that the Convair design is the one shown in the chart on page 15 in the first part of the conference report. Weird.The Landing Characteristics paper is quite interesting, I personally hadn't thought of the possiblity of belly-landing the design. (Of course that MIGHT be because of a rather personal bias. Having had an experiance in my younger days sliding down a snow covered hill on an aluminum "half-saucer" and finding a frozen branch that bisected the saucer into two sections [and took a large portion of my pants and some skin with the removed aluminum] that convinced me that saucers didn't have enough control authority to be a viable means of making my way down the hill... Ok, frankly I wasn't having a whole lot of luck with ANY "vehicle" that year as I seemed to recall managing one-and-a-half 'barrel-rolls' on a 8-man tobogan, bouncing off a passing car in/on an Tractor inner tube, and face-planting into a parking lot on a plastic "flexible-sled" aka: plastic sheet... Some great winter safety stuff from the home-made films of that trip but it really wasn't a good year for me and transportation <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> )But ONLY on land, water landing STILL would have (and still does) require parachutes. I think the actual films the various photos are taken from are on YouTube somewhere. I just can't seem to find them.Randy</blockquote>

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